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For the Honor of Greyskull! She-ra Character sheets.

Just finished She-Ra and the Princesses of power the other day. I’ve been a big fan of  Noelle Stevenson’s work.  It’s fun, light-hearted, with great character relationships, and queer representation!  Hopefully, it will get a second season.

I loved the aesthetic of the show, so thought it would be fun to make some character sheets inspired by it!

The first sheet I did was using the Fate system, in particular for the use with Masters of Umdaar, which basically is inspired by the old He-man and She-Ra 80’s show. It would be a blast to run a She-Ra inspired game using Masters of Umdaar!

Then, of course, I would be amiss not to throw the sheet down into good ol’ D&D 5e!

Rainbows and pastels and kicking the evil horde in the teeth for all!  For the honor of Greyskull.

She-Ra D&D sheet

She-Ra D&D printer friendly

She-Ra Fate sheet

She-ra Fate printer friendly

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some glimmer icons because I LOVE HER SO MUCH <3 <3 <3 

feel free to use, just tag me cuz i’d love to see 😁😁

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>:3c

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Mermista from She-Ra: PoP  I fear and respect her powerful 90s “talk-to-the-hand” rude older sister figure energy

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Hey, I’m now doing blank character sheets for she-ra OCs! Right now I only have ones for the Princess alliance, but will soon have ones for the horde too!

The background’ll look something like this!

dm me if you’re interested!

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So lemme see if I’ve gotten this right about Scorpia:

Based on her little character blurb, she ‘grew up in the Horde’. So we can infer that the Horde crashed in her family’s kingdom while she was fairly young.

Now, the way she describes things to Catra, her family joined up happily with the Horde and gave them their runestone. I think it would be safe to consider, given the Horde’s track record of lying to recruits, that this is not 100% guaranteed to be true. In fact, between the odds of a royal family happily turning one of their daughters over to be a child soldier and giving up their super magical family heirloom and symbol of rule, versus Hordak just overthrowing them and delivering the ultimatum that they willingly support the Horde or die, the latter is wayyy more likely.

Anyone with any understanding of rule would probably be able to determine the same thing. 

So we have little Scorpia, whose family has been overthrown by a bunch of alien invaders, and who has been inducted into said invaders’ child soldier program. Her birthright has been taken by Hordak and given to Shadow Weaver. And she gets an invitation to the Princess Ball.

We don’t have a canonical age (to my knowledge?) for Scorpia, but she looks a little older than Catra and Adora (though it’s actually hard to call, since she’s tall and has strong features - she could just look more mature by virtue of that). But my guess would be that she’s about (edit) 20-ish, compared to Catra and Adora’s late teens, especially since she’s an established Force Captain already.

This would also be in-keeping with her assessment that she doesn’t ‘fit in’ with the other princesses. While Mermista might be older, and Frosta much younger, the implication seems to be that most of the princesses are around the same age as Adora. If they were significantly younger than Scorpia, she’d naturally assume that the difference was that they were little? Like, most teens don’t get bent out of shape if a bunch of kindergarteners don’t gel with them as social peers. Scorpia especially seems like the type to just happily barrel through and win over a pack of kids anyways.

But something more like a really self-conscious fourteen-year-old being rejected by some twelve-year-olds would make more sense?

Scorpia asserts that her family was ‘disliked’ by the other kingdoms even before the Horde came; given that she’s grown up in the Horde, though, this would have to be secondhand information. I’d call it unreliable - the Horde is known for psychologically manipulating its recruits, and as we’ve seen with Catra, they lean into a ‘no one else will have you’ approach fairly often. Wouldn’t want the indentured princess with a rightful claim to ruling their territories to get any ideas about fleeing to one of their enemies and taking any loyal retainers to her family along with her, after all.

But if Scorpia’s spent most of her life being fed Horde propaganda, then she was probably blindsided by showing up to the Princess Ball to find people holding a hostile attitude towards the Horde. The same way Adora was taken aback by Bow’s assertion that she was with ‘The Evil Horde’.

Since the Princess Ball is a politically neutral function, though, most likely, no one saw any point in mentioning that they all hate the aggressive army banging on their doors. All Scorpia knew was that she went to a fancy party, hoping to meet other princesses and probably make some friends, and everyone seemed to hate her. They all acted like she didn’t ‘really’ belong. Thereby reinforcing what she’d been told about her family’s outsider status, and being left with the impression that there really wasn’t any place for her to find acceptance other than with the Horde.

…That’s heartbreaking.

No wonder she’s so excited to make friends with Catra. Another Horde Force Captain probably seems like her only opportunity to have a peer who likes her. (I mean, apart from Catra being a kitty and Scorpia finding it adorable, of course.)

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she-ra is just Star Wars if sailor moon was happening in the background in this essay I will -

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BEST FRIEND SQUAD

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this really highlights that catra has no genuine ideological tie to the horde. for her, she’s never had the choice of being Good, and she’s always known that everything they were told were lies. 

the horde, specifically shadow weaver, tortured her, physically and verbally. she was under no delusion that they were good people who were trying to save eternia. good people don’t torture children for any minor misstep. good people don’t tell kids that they’re worthless. good people aren’t like that. 

catra can do right by adora, and catra can trust that adora will do right by her, but that’s where it ends, and that’s what kept her going. 

it has nothing to do with genuine allegiances; it was all about survival. 

now she needs to learn that everyone else that the horde victimizes is just trying to survive too, and playing a role in that won’t keep her safe or happy in the long run.

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someday!!

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This intro slaps

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bad: 

“catra has been abused, you can’t blame her for her actions!”

good:

“catra has been through abuse and neglect, and while that has shaped her into the person she is today, it is not an excuse for the actions she has taken against adora or the rest of the world. catra is a lost and confused character and all she knows works is fighting, but she is not exempt from ridicule and is one hundred percent responsible for the evil she’s done.”

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Wow the door is infected too! It won’t let us in, that is so smart. And awful. We’re all gonna die.

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I was born to draw Catra

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i would die for them

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Idk if I'm the only one that caught this, but in the ep Light Hope, when the princess holograms pop up, there's one that looks like they have a tail? And a cat tail like Catra, plus the silhouette color was orange, a color often associated with Catra... your theory might be correct (Also I'm the Scorpia loving anon from before lol)

Great catch! I think I saw mention of this before but I just went back to look and

There’s a few Princesses we haven’t met yet, but we know from the Prom episode Sweet Bee and Peekablue exist (and are dating ♥♥) so I labeled the ones that are probably them. It’s true the body types for Scorpia and Catra don’t match completely, but I think you can explain that away and say that because they’re disconnected from their Runestones, the hologram just used approximate placeholders. Also, the pinky-purple on top could be Entrapta, but she’s kind of a weird case since they say she has no Runestone, but that could still be a case of it just being missing, and her being disconnected from it.

I wanna expand a little on what Kat has shared about the 80s series (which I haven’t seen) and how it’s feeding this theory

So the basic premise is that in SPOP, Catra’s character may have been merged with the Queen of Furries from the old series, giving us Princess Catra, who was kidnapped by the Horde the same as Adora. Catra would have no idea she was a Princess, and it would be a really fun plot twist.

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Hello fellow Catra fans!

I’m hoping to officially start this non official project in January, but until then, I have this interest check for you to check out!! It would mean a lot if you filled it out so I can make the vital decisions and we can get this show on the road!!

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Thank you!!

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